colmflanagan Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Many years ago the Railway Modeller ran a picture article called "prototype for everything" - this is a bit out of my period but... I couldn't resist doing this when I saw a photo of a train a while ago on (I think) the Great Central Railway, which bought an ex CIE generator steam van, and used it for heating behind a Class 45, which presumably had had it's steam equipment removed at some stage, as many did. I expect the GSV has now been repainted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 There was a TV program on an English Heritage Railway some years back and there in the background of some scenes was an ex IR Generating Van, quite a bizarre site. I understand it was used as a temporary measure to provide heating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted December 14, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2011 NIR bought some Mark II's from BR in the 80's and at least one was pressed into service running on the Enterprise service still in Blue/Grey livery. There were a few pics on fotopic before its demise, the only picture I can find is here http://s193.photobucket.com/profile/csalem_2007 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colmflanagan Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Many years ago the Railway Modeller ran a picture article called "prototype for everything" - this is a bit out of my period but... I couldn't resist doing this when I saw a photo of a train a while ago on (I think) the Great Central Railway, which bought an ex CIE generator steam van, and used it for heating behind a Class 45, which presumably had had it's steam equipment removed at some stage, as many did. I expect the GSV has now been repainted. I've since discovered that the loco in question was a preserved Class 44 "peak" and that the GSV packed in after a while, leavingweveryone in the cold. Colm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
divibandit Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 NIR bought some Mark II's from BR in the 80's and at least one was pressed into service running on the Enterprise service still in Blue/Grey livery. There were a few pics on fotopic before its demise, the only picture I can find is here http://s193.photobucket.com/profile/csalem_2007 Hi, There's a photo of this on p64 of Irish Railways Traction and Travel 2nd edition by Metro, showing it sandwiched between two NIR vehicles on an Enterprise working.... hauled by a CIE livered loco. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTurfBurner Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4852150 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4852168 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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